171: Modern Salesforce Integrations with Raj Advani

Raj Advani is the Senior Director of Product Management here at Salesforce. Raj has held a variety of different roles at the company, beginning with an Engagement Manager when he started 17 years ago. He now owns many of the event driven architectures for Salesforce, including Change Data Capture and Platform Events.

In this episode, we have a conversation with Raj about various integration solutions on the platform. We discuss what Change Data Capture and Platform Events are, the advantages of a Pub/Sub API, and more!

Show Highlights:

• Some of the internal features using Platform Events.
• Moving toward a bus centric world in Platform Events.
• The filtering conditions in Change Data Capture.
• The benefits of event driven architecture.
• The options for a distinct integrations from Salesforce.
• How Pub/Sub API plays into the event architecture.

Links:

• Raj on Twitter
• Raj on LinkedIn
• Architecture Decision Guides
• Episode 115: Event Relays with Tyson Read
• Episode 93: Pub/Sub with Emmett Chan-Ran